taco salad

okay, brace yourselves. i'm going to post a photograph that is so terrible that it's going to make you not want to make (or eat) a taco salad ever again. now that i've warned you, let me also say that the bad photo is just that - it's a bad photo. the salad itself is actually quite delicious.

usually when i make chili dave and i are content to eat it for a couple of days. but by the time there's about one meal left in that crock pot we're ready to move on to something else. that's when i decided to make a "taco" salad.

really, it's pretty easy. i threw together lots of what you would expect to see in a taco salad:

-iceburg lettuce
-chopped tomatoes
-corn
-black beans
-chopped avocado
-chopped sweet onion
-shredded cheese
-jalapenos

then i spooned out some of that leftover chili (warmed), sprinkled some broken tortilla chips on top, and served a bit of french dressing on the side. i made the french dressing by throwing the following ingredients into a food processor:

-3/4 cup olive oil
-1/2 cup ketchup
-about 1/2 cup sugar (i added this last and added it slowly, tasting as i went)
-1/4 cup vinegar
-1/2 small onion, chopped
-1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
-1/2 teaspoon paprika
-1/4 teaspoon salt

told you it was bad!